Former president Dmitry Medvedev, the ever-frenzied deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, claimed the United States air strikes on nuclear sites had failed, while claiming several other nations were set to supply Iran with nuclear warheads. The Kremlin condemned the raids, and its ambassador to the United Nations stoked memories of the disastrous 2003 war in Iraq: “Again we’re being asked to believe the US’s fairy tales, to once again inflict suffering on millions of people living in the Middle East,” said Vassily Nebenzia. “This cements our conviction that history has taught our US colleagues nothing.”
Yet the Russian President responded cautiously to his diplomatic visitor, stating there was no justification for the US bombing but adding only that they were “making efforts” to assist the Iranian people.
There is, however, no doubt that this potentially explosive confrontation in the Middle East places Putin in a difficult position. But the big question is whether this will end up corroding his vainglorious attempts to revive Russia as a global power– or actually boost his position by assisting his land grab and bloodstained atrocities in Ukraine?
Russia wasted financial and human resources propping up a gangster regime left hollowed out by corruption and drug-dealing in its crumbling economy. Moscow lost control of the port that was its only foreign naval base, along with an air base used to ferry mercenaries and weapons to Africa. Then it saw Hamas and Hezbollah – Iran’s terrorist front organisations – smashed up by Israel using lethal brute force and technological ingenuity.
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Putin’s focus – and possibly survival – rests on his botched attempt to seize Ukraine, which according to Britain’s Ministry of Defence just passed the grim milestone of leaving one million Russian soldiers dead or seriously wounded. All his financial and military resources are aimed at this war. And it has become a fight dominated by drones and the use of electronic warfare to thwart them.
The Kremlin has been offering to mediate peace talks between Iran, Israel and the US, along with a new nuclear deal for Tehran, sparking a sharp rebuttal from Donald Trump to “take care of their own conflict”. Russia was, after all, involved in Barack Obama’s 2015 deal that was stupidly torn up by Trump during his first presidential term.
Putin has been banking on the US President to help him out of his financial hole by lifting sanctions on Moscow and unfreezing assets. Although the Russian economy has proved resilient, aided by a splurge on military-linked spending and high global commodity costs, there have been recent signs it is spluttering.
So Putin is right to say these alarming events in the Middle East – with blood flowing and bombs falling from Gaza to Isfahan – “brings the world to a very dangerous line”. But that does not mean necessarily that Russia will spring into action to save Khamenei’s hideous regime, nor that its own dictatorship is despondent over this latest burst of global turbulence.
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